#StackBounty: #magento-2.1 Magento 2 Use Symlink In Default or Production Mode for Pub Static Files

Bounty: 50

Situation: I am running some free trials of Magento 2 and have limited HD space on the VPS. For this reason to cut down on HD space I want to have Magento symlink the files in default or production mode. I have noticed that a default Magento 2 install is about 420mb once the site first runs it goes to around 770mb so 350mb of this is copied files.

This works ok and the site will properly create the symlinks even when in default mode. However the issue is that the css is not created or the js-translation.json the files it should create but does not are: